House de Kris

I think you have good intent. But, to label it as HDR would be, in my opinion, a mistake. HDR means compression. If you are trying to identify an audio recording with minimal compression, it would seem confusing to label it as HDR. Yeah, them video guys were quite clever in labeling compressed video as High Dynamic Range. Makes the unthinking pedestrian believe it is better.

It is not exactly clear to me what the function and roles of this Union would be. Are you asking for a trusted organization to be formed to tell us what claims are bogus, and what claims are real? Are they to be a resource to tell us how much something should cost? Should we expect this trusted board to tell us how big our room should be, where to place the furniture, how loud to listen to music, and what time of the day and day of the week we should listen to particular songs or amplifiers? What if this trusted Union were to say something you know is right is actually wrong? What if they were to proclaim that something you know is wrong is the right way to do something? What if they were to state flat out that MQA is good for music, the industry, and world peace? Would that then result in a mass scuttling of The Brinkman Ship? In other words, would we blindly take all pearls of wisdom from the Union and shape our lives to follow their leadership, or would we do as we do now, pick and choose tidbits that align with our beliefs and chastise/protest statements that are to the contrary? If so, how is that any different than what we've been doing for decades?

There is no connections (USB or otherwise) between a computer and the DA-3000. Completely stand-alone. You use sneaker net to transfer the files to the computer via an SD or CF card. This is very appealing to me, others perhaps not so much. The Hi-Res Editor is probably a must. The flash cards (SD or CF) are formatted as FAT32, meaning there's a rather sever limit to the size of each file. In other words, you can't record a whole 2hr program as a single file. The recorder will make numerous files that then must be joined together via the H-R Editor software. The same software can also split this huge file into individual song files. It can also convert between a couple different formats. You can download the software for free to play around with.

Thanks. Yes, a lower price would be nice. But it appears you loose the rack ears and gain fat feet, neither of which is attractive to me. But others at CA may appreciate these details. Completely unrelated, and totally uncalled for, my little brain got triggered into thinking about recorder prices by your post. My first home audio stereo recorder was a Pioneer CT-F-2121 back in about 1975. List price was $200, and I walked out of the store paying only $120 for it. Checking the inflation calculator, this equates to a list price of over $900 (in 2018 dollars) or over $550 (2018 bucks) for my actual price. YIKES! Now I'm wondering why I waited so long to drop eight hunnerd smackers on the DA-3000.

Timely question for me. Just TODAY I ordered a Tascam DA-3000 as my next means of digitizing audio. I'm interested in trying out DSD recordings. Prior to these future changes, I've been using a dbx DDP as my digitizer, with its SPDIF being captured at first by a Marantz CDR-630 CD recorder, and more recently I've been using an E-Mu Darwin hard disc recorder to store the DDP's SPDIF stream. In both of these cases, I make one track per album side. I do this since my computer is nowhere near the turntable. I then hand carry the CD from the Marantz to the computer and rip it, or drag the Darwin to the computer and transfer its recordings via SPDIF to the computer. I use the computer to split tracks and then encode to other formats. I rarely 'clean up' the recordings. Only if a bad scratch makes a KER-POW, will I do something about it. I want the digital files to sound the same as when the vinyl was played. If this is what you want to do, then this will probably work just fine for you. My personal take on burning to disc with a CD recorder is I wouldn't do it again. Admittedly, the Marantz CD recorder is rather finicky with the media its fed. Plus, it's purdy durn hard to find CD-Rs that burn well at 1x speed. Pretty much all are optimized for 52x burn rates. I ultimately bought a bunch of audio CD-RWs which worked well with the slow burn rates of realtime audio. I'm going to miss using the dbx DDP, it had some really great features. But, I am very interested in seeing what the Tascam DA-3000 can do for me next.

What kind of wacky device is this? No coax input? No AES/EBU input? No ST fiber input?

Even threads that don't cast MQA in a seriously bad light are removed. Just today a thread about an affordable $1k DAC was pulled, and no posts stated anything close to saying MQA is a bag of lies. Mostly just about an entry level DAC for a grand will have the masses lapping it up.

Since I saw a Marantz receiver pictured, I'm assuming the this thread is moving away from high-end equipment. If so, good, since I don't have hi end gear to share. Here's a few: Adcom GFA-545II Bryston 2B-LP Bryston 4B Gemini CD9500II RGR Model 4 Sumo Delilah

The name Tacotron makes me crave Mexican food.

"Young people realised that most digital music sounds like shit," wow, interesting comment to be found on a website for computer audiophiles. I digress, let's look at the whole quote in its entirety. Virtually any concert a young person goes to will be heard via a digital mixer and plenty of other digital. Oh, you meant an unamplified classical concert? Yes, lots of young people there. I wonder what, then, could make their turntables sound so much like the digital shit they hear at a live concert?

I personally feel that this 'modern sound' of highly compressed music contributes to the lack of desire to spend money to try to squeeze out every last drop of quality in reproduced music. Compression makes it easier to hear things without the effort of listening (please note, hearing and listening are two completely different things). The same is happening in the video world, it is getting harder and harder to NOT find a TV with HDR compression. People gravitate towards compression because it makes life easier. "Easier" and "better" are not the same. So yes, as time goes on, it makes less sense to continue perpetuating high-end audiophilia. But, just like everything else that has died, there will still be isolated holdouts available to those who's values are based in ancient times. Look at vinyl, although it is way past the time it died, it still persists. Perhaps in 30 years the young people will be filling their shelves with hulking behemoths of gear, each only doing a small task in the grand scheme of things, to show their friends that they "get it" and are cool.

First post here. I sit about 60-70 feet back from the speaker plane. Speakers are about 50 feet apart.